Monday 8 August 2016

Specifically, what is complexity?

People involved in software projects would say that software development is about understanding complexity.

What is complexity?

What can we do about it?

Complexity is easy to define at a high level, but people get vague when pressed for a precise definition.  Let's see if we can:

  • quantify the problem
  • define it
  • suggest how to address it

2 Brooks, Frederick Phillips. “The Mythic Man Month”, 1995. ISBN 0-201-00650-2

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